On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:56, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:29:01PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > FC1, w/ KDE. > > [root@moe charles]# uname -r > > 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl > > > > What type filesystem do I have to have on my zip disks to be able to mount > > them with the default entery in /etc/fstab? I've just booted to windows and > > formatted a 100M disk with the fat filesystem, but... > > > > [root@moe charles]# mount /mnt/zip > > mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device > > > > I *can* mount them at /dev/sda1... > > [root@moe charles]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip > > [root@moe charles]# > > > > >From my /etc/fstab... > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > I suspect it isn't a matter of file system but of which device you are > trying to load. If you can mount at /dev/sda1, then try changing the > line in fstab to reflect that. > > For more info, see the ZIP Drive HOWTO, at http://www.tldp.org/ There was a thread recently that really helped a lot. Seems thee is a file /etc/updfstab.conf.default that kudzu uses to change fstab. In that file there is an entry for Zip drives that specifies Partition 4. My Zip works with partition = 0, Looks like yours is 1 9no idea why this should be, but I think it might be that if your disk came with software, then it may have been set up that way. I never looked at it with fdisk. anyway just edit the file (as root) that should fix your problems. Scott
